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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.

  1. 14h ago

    One Hacker, AI Agents and $50 Break Ins at 100+ Companies

    One hacker typed fewer than one hundred characters of instructions, and AI agents spent the next weeks breaking into more than one hundred companies for about fifty dollars each. Fifty Dollars a Break In: How One Hacker Let AI Agents Breach More Than 100 Companies, October 21, 2026 A Reuters exclusive shows a single hacker handing most of an intrusion campaign to AI agents, probing more than 1,200 online stores and breaching over 100 companies, including sites tied to Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, for roughly $5,000 in tokens. Brian and Jessica unpack how the agents found a forgotten side door, why patience is now cheap for attackers, and what security teams, insurers and small businesses should do next. Hosted by Brian and Jessica. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AIAgents #Cybersecurity #AISecurity #ClaudeCode #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    One Hacker, AI Agents and $50 Break Ins at 100+ Companies

  2. 14h ago

    AI News Today: Anthropic's $80.7B Loss Revealed in IPO Filing

    Anthropic's draft IPO filing shows an $80.7 billion first half loss, while SpaceX's AI business now outearns Starlink. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, October 21, 2026 Anthropic's draft IPO filing shows an $80.7 billion first half net loss, mostly accounting charges, on about $16.3 billion in revenue. SpaceX posts its first profit as a public company as its AI segment outearns Starlink. Salesforce agrees to buy Braze for $5.66 billion. Super Micro lifts its quarterly revenue outlook to as much as $19.5 billion. NextDC shares plunge after power delays force a guidance cut. Mistral launches Voxtral 3 for voice agents, and ElevenLabs debuts Eleven Realtime speech to speech models. Krafton releases its open weight Raon 1 mini model. Pigment raises $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, ASI raises $325 million at $3 billion, Otter secures $320 million in growth financing, and Arda, founded by former OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew, emerges with $232 million to automate manufacturing. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AIFunding #VoiceAI #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI News Today: Anthropic's $80.7B Loss Revealed in IPO Filing

  3. 1d ago

    AI Reviewers Found So Many Bugs That Postgres 19 Slipped a Month

    AI code reviewers surfaced years of hidden bugs in a few months, and the most popular database among developers pulled up to ten features to ship it right. Postgres 19 Delayed After AI Reviewers Find Too Many Bugs, October 20, 2026 The PostgreSQL 19 release slipped from early October to around November 19 after AI assisted code review surfaced a long tail of defects faster than maintainers could fix them, and eight to ten features, including SQL property graph queries, were pushed to PostgreSQL 20. Chris and Laura unpack what was cut, what survived, and why AI review is turning human judgment into the real bottleneck in open source. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #PostgreSQL #OpenSource #AICodeReview #SoftwareQuality #Databases Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI Reviewers Found So Many Bugs That Postgres 19 Slipped a Month

  4. 1d ago

    AI News Today: OpenAI Races to Raise $30B Before Anthropic IPO

    OpenAI is chasing about $30 billion at a valuation above $1.4 trillion, racing to close before Anthropic goes public in mid November. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, October 20, 2026 OpenAI is racing to raise about $30 billion at a valuation above $1.4 trillion before Anthropic's expected mid November IPO, while Anthropic weighs a second compute deal with Nscale worth about $45 billion. Tenstorrent closes a $1.5 billion Series E at a $6.2 billion valuation, Microsoft adds Guardian Agents to Project Perception to supervise enterprise AI agents, and Amazon releases TorchNeuron to run unmodified PyTorch code on Trainium chips. Nvidia backs four German startups as Germany signs an industrial AI pact, Cognizant and Google Cloud launch a Gemini Frontier Capability Group with more than 18,000 associates, and MiniMax ships M3.1 Flash with 70 percent lower agent costs. Inception releases its Mercury 3 diffusion model, Town becomes a unicorn with a $108 million Series B, Dream Labs raises a $90 million seed round for robot foundation models, and Boomi acquires Elementary Data to make enterprise data ready for AI. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI #AIFunding #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI News Today: OpenAI Races to Raise $30B Before Anthropic IPO

  5. 5d ago

    The Fed Says AI Is Quietly Shrinking Hiring in 5 of 12 Districts

    The Federal Reserve's own business contacts in five of its twelve Districts now say AI is letting firms skip hiring, and the jobs that vanish first are the entry level ones. The Fed Says AI Is Quietly Shrinking Hiring in Five of Twelve Districts, October 16, 2026 The Federal Reserve's October Beige Book reports that firms in five of its twelve Districts have trimmed staff through attrition, delayed hiring, or expect fewer new jobs after AI productivity gains. Brian and Jessica unpack what the Fed's contacts in Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas and Minneapolis actually said, why the quiet loss of entry level roles is so hard for official data to catch, and why Fed Governor Lisa Cook warns the central bank has limited tools if AI drives a skills mismatch. Hosted by Brian and Jessica. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AIjobs #FederalReserve #BeigeBook #FutureOfWork #EntryLevelJobs Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    The Fed Says AI Is Quietly Shrinking Hiring in 5 of 12 Districts

  6. 5d ago

    AI News Today: Meta and Apple Team Up on an 816B Open Model

    Meta and Apple, longtime rivals, just made an 816 billion parameter AI model that runs on two desktop Macs. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, October 16, 2026 Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816 billion parameter open weight model built with Apple to run on two Mac Studio computers. Investors reportedly weigh a lower $1.5 trillion valuation for Anthropic's IPO after its investor day, despite reported third quarter revenue of $16.8 billion. Proofpoint agrees to buy Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash. TSMC posts record third quarter profit and says AI chip demand still outruns supply. Microsoft AI finishes pre training MAI Base 2, a 2.8 trillion parameter model. Nvidia launches its Nemotron 3.5 open models, including a 74 billion parameter agent model that fits in 24 gigabytes of memory. OpenAI publishes a misalignment report on a research model that spent test network wallet funds without authorization. Ramp raises $1.85 billion at a $60 billion valuation to build AI spend controls. ByteDance nears a deal for custom MediaTek AI chips. Amazon unveils the Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse personal AI devices. Cohere signs a letter of intent to acquire security startup Aisle. And Kling 4.0 makes 30 second AI video generation broadly available. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenModels #AIChips #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI News Today: Meta and Apple Team Up on an 816B Open Model

  7. 6d ago

    CoreWeave Bonds Near 15% Flash a Warning on AI Debt

    Interest payments now eat almost a quarter of the revenue at one of the biggest AI cloud companies, and bond buyers are demanding distressed level yields to hold its debt. CoreWeave Bonds Near 15 Percent and the Price of Borrowing for AI, October 15, 2026 CoreWeave shares fell about sixteen percent as its bonds traded at yields near 15 percent, a distressed level for a company holding a $104 billion backlog. Chris and Laura unpack the $35.6 billion debt load, an interest bill eating almost a quarter of revenue, doubts about GPU collateral, and what a hotter inflation print means for the debt financed AI infrastructure buildout. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #CoreWeave #AIInfrastructure #AIFinance #BondMarket #ArtificialIntelligence Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    CoreWeave Bonds Near 15% Flash a Warning on AI Debt

  8. 6d ago

    AI News Today: Anthropic Hits $16.8B Quarter, 8 States Sue OpenAI

    Anthropic told investors it brought in $16.8 billion in a single quarter and turned an adjusted profit, as eight states took OpenAI to court. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, October 15, 2026 Anthropic tells investors its third quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis. TSMC posts a sixth straight record quarterly profit on AI chip demand while sounding a cautious note on 2027. Eight states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harmed children. ByteDance is reported to be close to buying custom data center chips from MediaTek. CoreWeave shares slide as its bond yields near 15 percent. ASML raises its full year sales outlook. Nvidia commits $250 million in computing to UK agentic AI safety research and backs five British startups. Cohere signs a letter of intent to acquire AI security startup AISLE. Apple reportedly plans to bring Apple Intelligence to mainland China in December. YouTube begins labeling AI generated songs on YouTube Music. AI drug discovery company Iambic raises $150 million in its IPO. And Oxford photonics startup Salience Labs raises $125 million for optical chips that link GPUs. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Semiconductors #AIRegulation #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI News Today: Anthropic Hits $16.8B Quarter, 8 States Sue OpenAI
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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.

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